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NSTimer retains its target ???

Hi!

I am having trouble with NSTimer... it seems that an NSTimer created with

[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval: 0.5 target: self selector: @selector(timerAction:) userInfo: nil repeats: YES];

retains the passed target, which is self here.
That is really strange, because I thought TARGETS simply are references! And the target I pass here is the creator of the Timer, so it also makes no sense that the Timer retains its parent ?!

Problem is that I want to invalidate the timer within the dealloc method of the target. But that now never gets called because the timer retained it :-(

Is that a bug or am I misunderstanding something ?

thanx in advance

Tobi
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